Gevalt!
I’m sick. I don’t mean just “ugh, I don’t feel all that great” sick. I mean, so sick I’ve been in bed since 7 p.m. Wednesday, with a brief attempt to go to work Thursday morning and a trip to the doctor on Thursday afternoon being the only times I’ve been up until this evening.
The doctor isn’t sure what it is. Virus, probably, but possibly a cold topped off with a secondary bacterial sinus infection. I’ve been in bed and asleep by 7 p.m. every night since Sunday last … and 7 a.m. came WAY too early. I dragged myself through work every day, came home and collapsed into bed. The doctor put me on bed rest until Sunday.
Had a BAD scare last night. I was lying in bed and suddenly started shuddering and shivering like mad. So hard I couldn’t catch my breath. I couldn’t even call out loud enough to get anyone’s attention. Finally managed to get hold of my cell phone and got my mom on the phone. (She was just downstairs.) She came up and piled on down comforters and then brought me some water to sip. It was a good hour before the shuddering stopped, though the tepid water helped calm them enough that I could breathe. I don’t like seeing my nail-beds go blue. Really I don’t.
Anyway, thank goodness, THAT hasn’t happened again. But I slept fourteen hours straight afterwards, and woke feeling very shaky this morning. I’ve been mostly in bed today, except I got up to take the kids to the “Boo Out” at church from 6 to 8 tonight. Their dad won’t take them to Halloweeny stuff, but I talked him into letting them stay with me for the evening so they could go. I mean, it’s a CHURCH thing, and it’s not a haunted house. There’s a moon-bounce and a moon-slide, and lots of carnival games, and a petting zoo and a pony ride …. the kids come in costume and get candy, but that’s as Halloweeny as it gets. ANYWAY.
We got back from that and I’m totally exhausted. So I’m getting them to bed and then crashing. The only other thing I HAVE to do this weekend is take them to #2 son’s soccer game tomorrow at 9 a.m., and then I can come back to bed.
This bed rest thing is BORING, but I’m feeling a bit better, so it must be working.